Wicked Local
More than 5,500 Needham voters cast a ballot in the town s 2021 local election, according to official results provided by the Town Clerk s office shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
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Needham Select Board
History was made in the contest for two open seats on the Needham Select Board. Lakshmi Balachandra and Marcus Nelson secured roughly 65% of the total votes cast in the contest and are the first two people of color to be elected to the town s executive board.
Balachandra, a professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson, won 34.4% of the vote. Nelson, a director of membership sales and service at the YMCA of Greater Boston, secured 32.1% of the vote.